Anthony Stadlen is a Daseinsanalyst, existential psychotherapist and family therapist, supervisor and teacher working in London. He is also founder and convenor of the Inner Circle Seminars: an international, interdisciplinary, ethical, existential, phenomenological search for truth in psychotherapy. This blogsite contains details of therapy and of past and future seminars. For therapy or seminars contact Anthony Stadlen at: +44(0)20 8888 6857, +44(0)7809 433 250, or stadlen@aol.com.

In the seven first seminars in this subseries we
recapitulated in depth, fifty years on, the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s
1959-1969 seminars in the psychiatrist Medard Boss’s Zollikon home. Our quest
resumes today, as we start to explore Heidegger’s discussions with Boss (reported in the book Zollilon Seminars), which
were the ground from which the seminars sprang. In today’s seminar we see how,
in their extraordinary conversations of April 1963 on holiday in Taormina,
Sicily,
Heidegger confirms
Freud’s discoveries of transference, repression, etc. – but as ‘ecstatic-intentional world-relationship’, not
as natural-scientistic ‘metapsychology’.
This calls for a radical reform not only of today’s ‘psychoanalysis’
but also of today’s ‘existential therapy’.
The split between them cannot be healed by a simple-minded eclectic placing
side-by-side of these well-meaning but alienated ‘disciplines’. Only a fundamental rethinking can redeem and unify their practice and theory.As we explore Heidegger s conversations with Boss in this and subsequent seminars, we shall see Heidegger‘s relentless concern to purge the human sciences of ‘calculative thinking’. This will require our looking also at his identification of such ‘machination’ with ‘World Jewry’ in his Black Notebooks, and at the influence of Christian thinkers such as Paul and Luther on his own thinking.

The Inner Circle Seminars were founded by Anthony
Stadlen in 1996 as an ethical, existential, phenomenological search for truth
in psychotherapy. They have been kindly described by Thomas Szasz as ‘Institute
for Advanced Studies in the Moral Foundations of Human Decency and
Helpfulness’. But they are independent of all institutes, schools and
universities.